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Champlain's Dream -a Biogaphy of Samuel de Champlain
Roll over to zoom, click to enlargeIf ever a book was printed that could cause one to question his accomplishments in life, David Hackett Fischer's Champlain's Dream might be it!
Envision yourself and Samuel de Champlain sitting at the same broad table, updating your resumes. The words flow quickly into your I-Pad, while Champlain must constantly dip his quill.
You write: "Stewardship is important. I'm proud to say that I was able to hand-off my 27 year-old riding lawnmower to my grandson, in perfect operating condition."
He writes: "Beginning in 1599, I successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean twenty-seven times, in an era when the odds of not surviving that journey were 1 in 10. Despite several close calls, I never lost a ship."
You write: "With five other dad's, we founded a Boy Scout troop that grew over time to number 23 members. Few of us will ever forget those s'mores around the old campfire on summer nights."
He writes: "Sent by my King and private investors to explore the commercial opportunities of New France, we took 80 habitants with us to Quebec in 1604. Over the winter more than half of them died. Again, and again we tried, each time having to be re-financed. Finally, success was ours. Today, 7 million habitants live in these territories, and most connect directly to the DNA of our original settlers.
You write: "At Clean Energy Extraction LLC (formerly Old King Coal Pits Consolidated), we created an employee vegan garden group, that soon learned to grow organic vegetables in former strip-mined valleys."
He writes: Tapping my acquired skills in survival, warfare, diplomacy, navigation, cartography, meteorology, language, architecture, forestry, horticulture, exploration and ship-building, I created a new nation on a foreign continent that survives today.
Samuel de Champlain was a natural-born leader. Will this book inspire those who love history? Bien sur! But it will also enthrall those who study the gift and complexity of leadership. If you are ever summoned to lead thousands into a desperate situation, be sure to pack this book! Champlain was an iconic man and this is an iconic read! 800 pages. Paperback.
